The Leader of the Free World- Me?
Here's what I've been thinking about. I love the United States. I consider myself one of the most fortunate of human beings to have been born here. I love this country and that it stands for freedom. But many things have gone awry. Specifically the idea of representative government.
We are no longer a representative government in the sense that the founding fathers intended. It is not the concern of the politician to do what is right for the country, and it is even further from his mind to do what the people of this country desire. After all, we are a country for the people and by the people. A man in a government position is supposed to speak for the people. That's the idea. The Governor and the Mayor and the President don't speak for the people anymore. They speak at the people. Citizens of this country then have a choice to agree with the government's policy, or they can use their freedom of speech to protest. Either way, their opinions don't matter anymore.
Most Americans like myself only really exercise our rights at election time, and more specifically, during the presidential election. That's bad. The President shouldn't matter that much. Really. We should be more concerned about who our mayor is. And we should be even more concerned about who our governor is. I finally learned how to say the name of the Mayor of LA. That's bad. These are the people who should be looked to for change, not the Federal Government, and especially not the President. He matters too much nowadays. The United States is far too big to be "ruled" by a president and a number of congressmen.
It's time to take the country and it's policies back as citizens of the United States. I'm tired of working tirelessly to improve my station in life while the supposed "civil servants" are dining on caviar and taking trips on private jets. Men and women serve the U.S. and die with less to their name than John Kerry's monthly water bill. Our taxes should be serving us, the citizens of the U.S., not paying to serve them. There really should not be a "them." It's an "us." And it's up to us whether we go to war, whether we ban smoking, or whether we should close our borders. It's our blessed country, and maybe it's time "they" remember it.
We are no longer a representative government in the sense that the founding fathers intended. It is not the concern of the politician to do what is right for the country, and it is even further from his mind to do what the people of this country desire. After all, we are a country for the people and by the people. A man in a government position is supposed to speak for the people. That's the idea. The Governor and the Mayor and the President don't speak for the people anymore. They speak at the people. Citizens of this country then have a choice to agree with the government's policy, or they can use their freedom of speech to protest. Either way, their opinions don't matter anymore.
Most Americans like myself only really exercise our rights at election time, and more specifically, during the presidential election. That's bad. The President shouldn't matter that much. Really. We should be more concerned about who our mayor is. And we should be even more concerned about who our governor is. I finally learned how to say the name of the Mayor of LA. That's bad. These are the people who should be looked to for change, not the Federal Government, and especially not the President. He matters too much nowadays. The United States is far too big to be "ruled" by a president and a number of congressmen.
It's time to take the country and it's policies back as citizens of the United States. I'm tired of working tirelessly to improve my station in life while the supposed "civil servants" are dining on caviar and taking trips on private jets. Men and women serve the U.S. and die with less to their name than John Kerry's monthly water bill. Our taxes should be serving us, the citizens of the U.S., not paying to serve them. There really should not be a "them." It's an "us." And it's up to us whether we go to war, whether we ban smoking, or whether we should close our borders. It's our blessed country, and maybe it's time "they" remember it.
posted by Selfish Brother at 1:42 AM
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